On March 3, 2022, five members of a family, including an elderly man, a woman, and three children, were brutally beheaded by unknown individuals in the village of Khwaja Sarma, Anjil district, Herat province, Afghanistan. The spokesperson for the Taliban security command in Herat stated that their investigation indicated the incident was due to personal enmity. However, no arrests or follow-up actions have been reported by the Taliban to apprehend the perpetrators of the massacre.